To: Carry_Okie
Actually, God judged Israel because they did not keep the Sabbath rests, which were to be every 7th year, in which the land was to be allowed to rest, debts were to be forgiven, slaves were to be set free, etc. They functionally kept the Sabbath, but only in form, and not with their heart. The reason they had 70 years of bondage and dispersement to Babylon was because the the 70 Sabbath rests they had never kept from the time they entered the Promised Land, as God had told their leaders. Daniel explains this.
13 posted on
03/02/2014 3:06:46 PM PST by
Shery
(in APO Land)
To: Shery
Actually, God judged Israel because they did not keep the Sabbath rests, which were to be every 7th year, in which the land was to be allowed to rest, debts were to be forgiven, slaves were to be set free, etc. They functionally kept the Sabbath, but only in form, and not with their heart. The reason they had 70 years of bondage and dispersement to Babylon was because the the 70 Sabbath rests they had never kept from the time they entered the Promised Land, as God had told their leaders. Daniel explains this.I wrote a whole book on the topic. Your understanding, although conventional, is critically incomplete.
14 posted on
03/02/2014 3:08:45 PM PST by
Carry_Okie
(Islam offers us three choices: Defeat them utterly, die, or surrender to a life of slavery.)
To: Shery
BTW, I believe you are thinking of 2nd Chronicles 36:20-21, where Ezra cites Jeremiah. The Sabbath for the Land is not specifically mentioned in the book of Daniel.
15 posted on
03/02/2014 3:16:52 PM PST by
Carry_Okie
(Islam offers us three choices: Defeat them utterly, die, or surrender to a life of slavery.)
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